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    words introduce a character and story that immediately capture the reader’s eagerness to know more. “It was a big squarish frame house that had once been white… Only Miss Emily’s house was left” (Faulkner 91). This first description of Emily’s home is our first look at the world she loves in. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses many facets of the happenings in Emily’s life and history to reveal more about her. Faulkner uses intricate forms of symbolism to quietly tell us about his main…

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    use the bathroom all because of my sister and I got a pop and chips while we were there. Then when we got home we unloaded everything from the cars I had to carry most of the bags to our table in our kitchen. Jamestown, a town this is in the middle of nowhere it's like north branch in size anyway, but this town has more churches and other thing for people to do their. It is about six hours from mount Rushmore tho we were gonna go there while we were in north Dakota but we didn't but in…

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    A big change in my life was me moving from a city where I was raised to a small town where I have never lived before besides when I was a baby. I had lived in California since I was a baby, I grew up in California. In California is were I was raised, it was a big city with many different towns that were only like ten to fifteen minutes away. I had fit so good there, I had my family and my friends that I grew up with and even a sport I was actually good at that I played in since I was 4 years old…

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    death, people walk with a cane, and eventually meet their untimely demise. Similar to the sphinx’s riddle in Oedipus Rex, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilter, includes these major themes in each scene of the play. The first act includes the theme of small town life where the story takes place in New Hampshire in a small fictional town known as Grover’s Corners. Within this little town, everyone knows one another, and can feel for each other. The second act is mainly about the themes love, and…

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    I thoroughly enjoyed reading and understanding the literary work, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The play begins in 1901 by illustrating the simple lives of ordinary people in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Wilder has created the element of purity by using small town Leria 7 characters as a universal theme. Each of his three act represents a different aspect of life staring with the simplicity of daily living through the struggles of love, marriage and then death. He opens his…

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    maybe danger. In this short story by The lottery is about a village that everyone gathers for a lottery each year. They collect stones and gather around to talk to each other in the middle of the town. The villagers talk to each other and talk about the lottery. Mr. Summer's gets to the town with a black box and a three legged…

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    By applying the GIS spatial analyst, the results show that the Mill area has a high level of accessibility and connectivity (See Figure 16&17). More buses are served along Main Street and more local roads are connected to the Mill area. It is convenient for people to get access to the Mill. Findings The design elements discussion refers to a limited reference and mainly focuses on the related works that are widely known. The outcome of the analysis is the basic result to be appropriate for a…

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    Traditions and Small-Town Values Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a shocking tale of tradition and the horrifying results when are taken to the extreme. The author’s word choice, setting, and overall tone used in conveying the story sends a powerful message to the reader. The style and diction used by Jackson to create a familiar and comforting setting and tone in her tale of senseless violence both brings the violence of human nature closer to home and reveals the darker nature of tradition,…

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    As the Stage Manager in Our Town said, “Life goes on.” This quotation reveals that everything has a beginning and an ending. The play by Thornton Wilder, and Sounder by William H. Armstrong, contain three perfect examples of people who had survived as their loved ones passed away. These character examples are the boy from the novel Sounder, and George and Editor Webb from the play. The boy lost his father, and his dog. George lost his wife, Emily, and his mother, Mrs. Gibbs. Finally Editor Webb…

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    would build an industrial park complex. Depending on how big the complex is, it could create many new businesses in our community. Most likely, it would start out small and grow! Industrial parks are used to influence businesses to move into them to better the community. It would be smaller scale than you would see in the suburbs and cities, but it would have many positive effects on our community. It would start out with one small business. As jobs are created for local people with this…

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